male faculty. Each panel shows a line
representing the proportion of female
faculty and bars indicating the difference from the overall average for the
year. The average proportion of female faculty of 163 institutions forms
the “baseline” of each year. The eight
panels show that increases are not uniformly distributed across groups.
˲ ˲ Departments in private institutions
ranked 1–36 show increases in the proportions but the relationship to the
baseline average shows little change.
˲ ˲ Departments in public institutions
ranked 1–36 show different trends:
the departments in Public 1–36 1nd
saw almost no change in proportion,
which results in a decrease from the
baseline average; Public 1–36 2nd saw a
significant increase from 10% in 1999,
which was below the baseline average,
to 19%, the highest among all groups
in 2009.
figure 2. average number of female faculty in a department by academic rank.
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4
3
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Public 1–36 1st
average Number of female faculty by Rank
Public 1–36 2nd Private 1–36 1st
Private 1–36 2nd
Public 37+ Large
Public 37+ Medium
Public 37+ Small
Private 37+
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4
3
2
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4
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Full
associate
assistant
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008
year
2000 2000 2002 2002 2004 2004 2006 2006 2008 2008
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008
figure 3. Proportion of Ph.D.’s awarded to females in the eight groups (lines) and difference in proportion from yearly average (bars).
Public 1–36 1st
Difference in Proportion from average for female Ph.D.’s
Public 1–36 2nd Private 1–36 1st
Private 1–36 2nd
Difference in Proportion from average
(Proportions superimposed)
0.24
0.18
0.12
0.06
0.00
–0.06
–0.12
0.24
0.18
0.12
0.06
0.00
–0.06
–0.12
0.40
0.32
0.24
0.16
0.08
Public 37+ Large
Public 37+ Medium
Public 37+ Small
Private 37+
0.40
0.32
0.24
0.16
0.08
1999 (avg = 0.1526)
2000 (avg = 0.1468)
2001 (avg = 0.1612)
2002 (avg = 0.1814)
2003 (avg = 0.1707)
2004 (avg = 0.1831)
2005 (avg = 0.1484)
2006 (avg = 0.1873)
2007 (avg = 0.189)
2008 (avg = 0.2043)
